Golf-ball.



PATENTED NOV. 3, 1903.

J. H. ROGER.

GOLF BALL APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1903.

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INVE NTOR iio. 743,105.

iatented November 3, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. ROGER, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

.GOLF-BALL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,105, dated N ovember 3, 1963.

' Application filed March 9,1908. Serial No; 146i820. (N0 modcli) V To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HENRY ROGER, wine merchant,a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of 11 South Exchange Place, in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Balls for Golf and other Games, (for which an application for a patent has been filed in Great Britain, No. 3,230, bearing the date the 11th of February, 1903,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to improvements in balls for golf and other games; and it consists of a combination of gutta-percha or india-ruber parts with raised or rounded surfaces.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention relates may understand how same may be carried into practice, I have hereunto appended illustrative drawings, in which- 7 Figure 1 is a sectional view of a golf-ball as formed in accordance with my improvements, while Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a slightly-modified arrangement from that shown in Fig. 1-.

Referring to these drawings, according to my improvements I use a center core 1, of gutta-percha, india-rubber, or the like, and I use an outer jacket-cover 2, of plastic guttapercha, india-rubber, or the like. The outer surface of the center core and the inner surface of the outer j acket would be formed with projections 3 and at, respectively, in the configuration of globules, brambles, or the like, which may be solid, cup-shaped, or hol-. low. As shown in Fig. 2, between these indented surfaces I may use a series of small balls or spherical pellets 5, of india-rubber, gutta-percha, or like material.

The outer surface of the jacket-cover 2 may be formed with projections, corrugations, or indentations 6 of a bramble or other pattern.

By these improvements a golf-ball will be produced which will fly straighter and farther than the ordinary solid ball and be less liable to deviation in play throughout the golf course, such as may be caused by wind, rain, or inequalities of the ground, and which will on the putting-green be less sensitive to deflections when the greens are dry, fiery, or frosty. As the projections on the outer skin cover bear on corresponding projections on the inner skin core or on intermediate balls arranged between these ball-bearing surfaces,- when the ball is struck by the club a resilient action is obtained which gives an auxiliary impetus to the flight of the ball through the air and a rebounding reaction when it strikes the ground greater than or at least equal to the high-priced balls produced by winding under tension threads or ribbons or rubber.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Balls for golf and like games, having a central core provided with a series of separate projections on its outer surface and an outer jacket having similar projections on its inner surface to engage with the core projections, substantially as described and shown.

2. Balls for golf and like games having a center core formed with raised projections on its outer surface, and an outer jacket-cover formed with corresponding projections on its inner surface, in combination with a series of small spherical pellets intermediate between these surfaces, substantially as herein set forth.

3. Balls for golf and like games, comprising the combination of a center core formed with raised projections, raised projections bearing against the core projections, and forming ball-bearing surfaces, and an outer jacketed cover, substantially as herein set forth.

4. A golf-ball having a solid central core provided with a series of projections on its outer surface and an outer j acket-cover having a series of similar projections on its inner surface, arranged in contact with the core projections; substantially as described and shown.

5. A golf-ball havinga central core provided with substantially semispherical projections on its outersurface,and an outerjacket-cover having on its inner surface similar projections arranged in contact with the core projections, substantially as described and shown.

6. A golf-ball having a solid central core In testimony whereof I have signed my provided with substantially semispherical name to this specification in the presence of projections on its outer surface, an outer two subscribing witnesses.

jacket-cover having similar projections on its JAS. I-I. ROGER. 5 inner surface, and a series of small spherical Witnesses:

pellets arranged between said surfaces, sub- JOHN SIME,

stantially as described and shown. ALEXR. LANDER. 

